TronBid has expanded its two-sided marketplace for TRON network resources, positioning the platform as a venue where both buyers and sellers can post orders for energy and bandwidth. The company says the update is aimed at users who want to access TRON resources without staking large amounts of TRX, and at businesses looking to manage the network-cost component of frequent TRC-20 USDT transfers. Under the model described by TronBid, buyers can create BUY orders by setting the amount of energy they need, the rental duration, and the price they are willing to pay. Sellers can publish SELL offers with their own quantity, price, and term, and buyers may take all or part of those listings. TronBid says this structure differs from platforms where rental terms are set only by providers. The company also highlighted a set of tools built around immediate access and business automation, including Quick Rent for predefined short-term packages, Flash Recharge for wallets managing depleted in-house energy capacity, and a B2B Quick Rent API for exchanges, payment processors, wallets, OTC services, and other firms handling frequent TRON transactions. Separately, TronBid said it has become a TRON Super Representative partner within the network’s DPoS governance ecosystem. The article was published as sponsored content written and provided by TronBid, according to BlockTempo’s disclosure.

ChainFeeds Research’s latest PRO edition surveys a wide stretch of crypto protocol work, led by Ethereum’s Hegotá upgrade priorities and a new analysis of Block-Level Access List, or BAL, pricing under EIP-7999. Ethlabs argues Hegotá should stay focused on a small set of issues tied to Ethereum’s long-term competitiveness, placing FOCIL and Quick Slots at the top of the list while also backing native account abstraction through EIP-8141 Frame Transactions and a more careful approach to scaling via resource pricing and propagation improvements rather than simply raising the gas limit. The issue also tracks Bitcoin protocol discussions. It highlights sipa’s proposal for handling larger post-quantum cryptography witness data without introducing another transaction identifier, a disclosed reorg attack risk affecting LND versions before 0.20.0, and a proposal by Jean Pablo to formalize the rawtr() output script descriptor in a BIP. On the research side, Fei Wu uses data from February through May 2026 to argue BAL should be priced as a byproduct of execution and state access instead of as a standalone resource. Other featured work includes Ethereum PoS head-vote timing research, a zero-bridge cross-chain exchange design called BTCP, a roundup from The MEV Letter #150, and a machine-learning paper on early detection of fraudulent memecoins on Solana.

The Blockchain Association said it supports federal-level identity check rules for stablecoins, while urging regulators not to apply those requirements to person-to-person transfers in secondary markets. The group argued that extending identity verification obligations to P2P transfers would create unnecessary compliance burdens for users and market participants. It also said such a move could hold back innovation. The position was cited by Techub News, with Crypto.news named as the source in the brief. No additional details on a specific proposal, agency, or timeline were provided in the item.

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino said USDT has expanded globally as a substitute for the U.S. dollar, helping people in developing countries access foreign currency for domestic and cross-border business activity. He said Tether’s mission of promoting financial inclusion is now more important than before. Ardoino’s comments were paired with examples from Latin America. Economist Asdrubal Oliveros said that in 2025, nearly 80% of Venezuela’s oil revenue was paid through stablecoins. This year, P2P stablecoin trading volume was equal to 75% of the country’s monthly oil exports, while 90.2% of listings in Binance’s P2P order book included USDT. In Argentina, demand for stablecoins has remained in place even after the end of currency controls, with some users relying on them for liquidity management and as a hedge against local currency depreciation. Bolivia is also evaluating whether to bring USDT into its financial system. Tether’s market capitalization has now surpassed $180 billion.

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino said USDT has expanded globally as a dollar substitute, giving users in developing economies access to foreign currency for both domestic and cross-border commerce. He said Tether’s mission of advancing financial inclusion is now more important than before. The report cited economist Asdrubal Oliveros, who said that in 2025, nearly 80% of Venezuela’s oil revenue was paid through stablecoins. This year, P2P stablecoin trading volume in the country was equivalent to 75% of its monthly oil export volume, while 90.2% of listings on Binance’s P2P order book included USDT. In Argentina, demand for stablecoins has remained in place even after the end of currency controls, with some users using them for liquidity management and to hedge against local-currency depreciation. Bolivia is also evaluating whether to incorporate USDT into its financial system. Tether’s market capitalization has now surpassed $180 billion, according to the report, which cited Bitcoin.com News.

Mastercard used its July 30 second-quarter earnings call and a same-day Motley Fool podcast appearance by CEO Michael Miebach to lay out a consistent view across three hot topics in fintech and crypto: stablecoins, agentic commerce and AI. His argument was not that every payment should stay on card rails. It was that settlement may move across several rails, while trust, security and interoperability remain the layer Mastercard intends to own. Miebach said stablecoins already have clear utility in some B2B and P2P flows, especially where correspondent banking is expensive and opaque, but argued there is "no problem to solve" for everyday pay-to-merchant spending. In agentic commerce, he drew a line between AI buying on behalf of people or businesses, where Mastercard believes cards and existing protections still fit, and machine-to-machine transactions, where on-chain permissioning and off-chain settlement may require new infrastructure. That framework helps explain Mastercard’s acquisition of BVNK, which closed on August 3 for $1.8 billion, five months earlier than originally planned. With BVNK bringing annualized stablecoin volume of about $30 billion, more than 25 licenses across 130 markets, MiCA authorization and SEPA euro connectivity, Mastercard is adding a working stablecoin settlement layer to support sending, receiving, storing and converting assets.

A group of long-dormant Bitcoin wallets moved 1,314.41 BTC over the past 24 hours, with the bulk of the activity tied to addresses created in 2014. According to the report cited by Odaily, wallets from that year transferred 1,214.42 BTC, accounting for 92.4% of the total and worth about $86 million at the stated valuation. The transactions included 21 transfers of 50 BTC each, with funds consolidated from legacy P2PKH wallets into new P2WPKH addresses. Some of the transfers were completed in the same block. Arkham’s entity labels did not show any link between the addresses and exchanges. The report also said the 2014 holder’s BTC had been acquired at roughly $310 to $427, implying gains of at least 16,645%. Separately, three wallets created in 2016 moved 79.99 BTC, while two 2017 addresses transferred 20 BTC. The information was attributed to Bitcoin.com News.

Bitcoin.com reported that 28 long-dormant Bitcoin wallets transferred a combined 1,314.41 BTC over the past 24 hours, with the haul valued at about $94.03 million. Wallets created in 2014 accounted for 1,214.42 BTC, or 92.4% of the total, worth roughly $86 million. The report said 21 transactions each moved 50 BTC, with funds consolidated from legacy P2PKH wallets into new P2WPKH addresses, and some of those transfers were confirmed in the same block. Arkham’s entity labels do not currently show any connection between the addresses and exchanges. Bitcoin.com also said the 2014 wallet holders had acquired their BTC at around $310 to $427, implying gains of at least 16,645% on those holdings. Separately, three wallets from 2016 moved 79.99 BTC, while two addresses from 2017 transferred 20 BTC.